Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 6 tables, 3 figures
Scientific paper
PSR B1937+21 was the first millisecond pulsar ever measured. Which has been appeared as a singular pulsar. The high-precision observation of this pulsar shows systemic long-term variation in the residual of time of arrivals. This paper modelled the secular variation by the orbital precession induced time delay of a binary pulsar system. The fitting requires that as a binary pulsar, PSR B1937+21 should have small companion star, $m_2\sim 10^{-2}M_{\odot}$, and projected semi-major axis, $x\sim 10^{-4}$s to $10^{-3}$s. Which corresponds to ignorable radial velocity of the pulsar to the line of sight. This might explain why it has been measured as a singular pulsar instead of a binary pulsar.
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